The village is located in the northeastern corner of Cornish, at the southern end of a valley floor which is bordered westerly by Cornish Stage Road, easterly by New Hampshire Route 120, and whose northerly end is in the town of Plainfield.

The village green has a life-size Union soldier statue elevated on a plinth carved in granite with the names of Cornish Civil War dead.

A Memorial Day eulogy and parade begin here, led by the local Boy Scout troop.

The old meeting house on the green has a spire and mostly reliable clock, whose bell tolls hourly.

Other businesses include Cornish General Store and the Cornish Flat post office, as well as the family-owned GMC dairy farm, an Angus beef farm neighboring it with substantial feed corn acreage.